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This week in UK data centres: A 500MW headline is a pipeline, not revenue. Compare the Cloud’s guide for local suppliers starts from a definition
This week in UK data centres: BNEF: UK capacity set to triple — if the pipeline converts. 53% of it is early-stage. Bloomberg NEF published its 2026 Data Centre Outlook this week. The headline is that UK data centre peak power demand is forecast to reach triple the installed capacity
On 16 September 2026, the Scottish Parliament voted on a Green Party motion calling for a moratorium on hyperscale data centre applications. The moratorium itself was rejected by the SNP, Labour, and the Conservatives. But what passed instead has had the same practical effect for most applications — and in
Connectivity is the most consistently underassessed element of UK data centre development and acquisition. Power, planning, and construction receive the most attention and the most resource. Connectivity is frequently treated as a downstream procurement decision — something to be sorted out once the facility is built. That sequencing produces two
A data centre project that has secured land, planning consent, a grid connection, and an anchor tenant has cleared the four hardest gates in the current UK market. The build phase should be the most manageable part of the programme. In practice, it is where a significant proportion of the
A data centre that has been commissioned and handed over to operations is at the start of a 20 to 25 year asset life during which the facility management programme determines whether the infrastructure performs to its contracted specifications, whether the customer SLAs are met, and whether the asset retains
This week in UK data centres: Burges Salmon: power access is the gating factor. Not demand, not planning. Burges Salmon published The UK Data Centre Market in 2026: Navigating Demand, Power and Opportunity this week, drawing on contributions from CoreWeave, NTT Global Data Centres, Future Growth Capital, Floral Energy, and
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